@lookingforward I do digital and traditional art
@apraxiamom I think my HS is based on STEM, My school has like, art, digital & media art, and 3D art classes
Do more research not only on schools but what makes a competitive portfolio.
Go to conceptart dot org and look at work done by others and post your own work.
. Get feedback on your own portfolio.
Milkynova-- For a competitive portfolio for any art school you will need drawings from life
Figure drawings especially. Art should not be done from photographs.
Do not draw figures that are similar to anime for portfolio work.
You have some cute stuff on your website (especially liked Screech!) but I think you’ll need to branch out to some other mediums (and some real life drawing–I didn’t see any on your site) to have a good portfolio for art school admission.
As many have asked–have you taken the art classes in high school? What is the extent of your art education? What does your art teacher say?
Besides cartoon-type drawings do you have examples of real life drawings/painting/sculpture?
Perhaps there are some art classes at your community college or civic center that you could enroll in.
Lacking that get some books and delve into them–draw, draw, draw!
As to SCAD’s president–“It goes on to explain that part of Wallace’s pay that year was boosted by a lump sum of deferred compensation.” (related to a retirement package).—(I’d like that package!)
I do know successful SCAD grads. It’s a good school but really expensive as most good art schools.
What someone does with their art post-graduate is up to them. Some go in with a specific goal in mind and others do not.
Milkynova–have you done caricatures of people/pets? Tried selling them?
@gouf78 I took Media Art, Art 1 &2, and I’m enrolled to take Digital Art upcoming school year. I tried doing those life study drawings, but my eye style tends to turn out cartoonish. I got the anatomy right but eye wise I tend to stylize it to my liking. And no, I didn’t do caricatures yet.
Ehhhh kind of. I think the point is that with the exception of a handful of really good, really expensive art colleges,* many (most?) are probably better off going to a regular liberal arts university with a good art department. Not only will you still learn how to produce really great art, but you can also learn other subjects and skills too that will arm you with some marketability beyond just your art skills. It gives you some flexibility for your post-college career. And those other colleges are probably more likely to give you enough financial aid to attend.
*Pratt, Parsons, RISD, CalArts, MICA, SVA, etc.
A good indicator of how good a school is, is whether it provides enough financial aid for those with demonstrated need to attend - if it can’t run as its likely not there to educate as much as to make money.
Art is one of those fields where you don’t have to spend scads of money to do well in and having the desire to improve is more important: https://noahbradley.com/how-to-be-an-artist-without-going-to-art-school/
You can also look in to ateliers in Europe.
OP, I think what people are trying to say is;
- “Don’t spend or ask anyone else to spend $50k/year on a goal that can be achieved for a much lower cost and at a school that only graduates 50% of the students” and,
- “if you want to go to college to study art and something else, as art may not be predictable enough of a field to rely on solely, then pick a university that has both”
- the best case scenario is that all works out with your love of art, but if it needs to be combined with another field to be successful that’s ok too.
@milkynova wrote
YES! Don’t go there. Don’t go there don’t go there don’t go there.
For what feels like the bajillionth time: Don’t go to an art school. Go to a school with a solid art department. Most art classes for the first two years are foundation and are taught the same, like EXACTLY the same.
For instance, my 3-d design class at Carnegie Mellon U in 1988 is exactly the same class, using the same assignments, as the 3-d design class I took (for a better grade) at the University of North Georgia in 2015. Same. Same. Same.
Only difference was that I was one of the best students at UNG, and at the bottom at CMU (mostly due to my immaturity and lack of direction, but also because CMU has one of the strongest undergraduate art depts in the country and my peers were amazingly talented there).
Based on your tumblr feed you’re a talented artist. But so am I. There are a lot of us out there. What will set you apart is not where you go, but how you apply yourself.
(seriously having the feeling like I’ve said this already, though).